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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Those of us overreacting to Wes Clark Look, the guy was wounded in Vietnam himself, OK? Stop calling him unpatriotic. It was a stupid comment, sure. But his point should be well-taken.
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Frank Lucente flip-flop on stormwater, explained Nice story in today’s NV that in part allows Frank Lucente to explain his flip-flop on funding for stormwater. “I think we can do the whole thing with what we’ve got,” Lucente told The News Virginian. He told me a different story…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign has released its second general-election ad of the 2008 campaign – and it will debut in Virginia and 17 other battleground states beginning today. The 30-second ad, “Dignity,” focuses on Obama’s personal commitment to work on behalf of working-class Americans as a community activist and…
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Item by Jim Bishop Albert N. (Al) Keim, 71, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University, died June 27, 2008 at University of Virginia Medical Center. He had a successful liver transplant in 2007, but his health had declined in recent months. Dr. Keim joined the EMU history department faculty in 1965 and retired…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The First Fridays Art Walk in Downtown Harrisonburg will have a patriotic flavor of sorts. The Art Walk will be held from 1-4 p.m. on Friday, the Fourth, and will coincide with the Valley 4th Celebration in Harrisonburg. There will be a guided art walk at 3 p.m. beginning in…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The fourth annual Art Expose at Lower Cove Run Art Studios in Matthias, W.Va., just over the state line from Rockingham County, is set for the extended Fourth of July weekend. The July 4-6 event will run from 4-6 p.m. each day at the studios.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Nice, provocative lede to the “Can’t just blame it on the rain” story on Day One of The News Virginian’s Stormwater Strain series. “Trash, cigarette butts, oil and antifreeze assault Waynesboro’s stormwater system,” writes the NV’s Jimmy LaRoue, making us think that these are the…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sensing more fear than loathing regarding the upcoming News Virginian special report on stormwater issues. I’ve been getting e-mails the past couple of days from residents who assume that the NV is going to take a partisan rather than evenhanded approach to reporting on…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: You, me and everybody we know The State Corporation Commission said today that it has approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request for an 18 percent rate hike. Yippee. The average residential utility bill will go up $16.61 a month with the rate increase. The good news – Dominion deferred about…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
